Michiko, a female college student, traveled to America for a summer study abroad program. She was supposed to meet a relative at the airport to show her around, but they never showed up. Then, a man named Chandra, who claimed to know the relative, approached her and gave her a ride. However, the car suddenly came to a halt in the middle of the desert…
Matsutaro runs a small movie theater, but due to the recession, it is not very popular. His wife Junko lives separately from him because he is impotent, and runs a video shop.
Natsuko, a clerk at a mid-sized publishing company, is having an affair with her editor, Ooba, when she asks him out on a date the following Sunday, but he turns her down.
Sena has had a care-free deco-truck business, but one day, she receives a strange request by a cheap hoodlum, Takizawa, to carry a blind stripper, Azumi, to a certain location.
Yuriko has been forced into a life with no freedom due to her husband’s domestic violence. Her friend Mari is worried about her but recruits her to a newly emerged religion in the hopes of helping her find happiness.
On a West German Autobahn, Robert plummets from a bridge and is hospitalized. As he recovers, he flashes back to a Bulgarian holiday where he met Jutta and her uncle Lothar, who’d ordered a West German passport to smuggle her out of the DDR.
As he gradually turns mad, the dancer Nijinsky evokes the important episodes of his life. In costumes and sets of lush beauty, the divine puppet performs in a final show where the secondary characters are named: Diaghilev, Isadora Duncan, Stravinsky, Auguste Rodin, Léon Bakst.
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
This half-hour BBC documentary offers a revealing look at Svankmajer at work on "Death of Stalinism in Bohemia," and uses excerpts from his earlier films to trace the development of his unique sensibility.
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